Environmental Sustainability in Transatlantic Perspective: A Multidisciplinary Approach

ISBN-13: 9781349462759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 237 str.

M. Achilles;D. Elzey

Opis

Experts from business, academia, governmental agencies and non-profit think tanks to form a transnational and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the combined challenges of environmental sustainability and energy security in the United States and Germany.

Spis treści

Introduction; Manuela Achilles and Dana Elzey PART I. BROADER CONTEXTS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 1. Putting a Price on the Planet: Economic Valuation of Nature's Services; Mark White 2. International Trade and the Environment: Does Globalization Create Havens of Pollution?; Peter Debaere 3. New Directions in Green City Building; Timothy Beatley PART II. GERMANY'S ENERGY REVOLUTION 4. The German Green Party: From a Broad Social Movement to a People's Party; Arne Jungjohann 5. Germany's Ecological Tax Reform: A Retrospective; Michael Mehling 6. 'Nuclear Power? No, Thank You!': Germany's Energy Revolution Post-Fukushima; Manuela Achilles 7. Ambitions and Realities of the German Energy Revolution; Brian Marrs PART III. TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION AT THE MACRO AND MICRO LEVELS 8. The Transatlantic Climate Bridge: Challenges and Opportunities; Anja Kueppers-McKinnon, Georg Maue and Carmen Kristan 9. Formalizing the Transfer and Application of Environmental Policies and Lessons From Germany to the United States: The Case of Northern Virginia; Dale Medearis 10. Cultivating the Cross-Cultural Engineer: Key Insights; Dana M. Elzey and Kerstin Steitz 11. Designing for the Anthropocene: The Duisburg RhinePark; Jorg Sieweke 12. Eco-Revelatory Design: An Approach you Can Bank On; Eugene Ryang

O autorze

Manuela Achilles, University of Virginia, USA Timothy Beatley, University of Virginia, USA Peter Debaere, University of Virginia, USA Dana Elzey, University of Virginia, USA Arne Jungjohann, State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, Germany Carmen Kristan, German Embassy, Washington DC, USA Anja Kueppers-McKinnon, German Embassy, Washington DC, USA Georg Maue, German Embassy, Washington DC, USA Brian Marrs, Yale University, USA Dale Medearis, Northern Virginia Regional Commission, USA Michael Mehling, Ecologic Institute,Washington DC, USA Jorg Sieweke, University of Virginia, USA Kerstin Steitz, University of Virginia, USA Mark White, University of Virginia, USA Eugene Ryang, Waterstreet Studio, Virginia, USA